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    Feyerabend's conquest of abundance
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.
    (2002). Feyerabend's Conquest of Abundance. Inquiry: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 249-267.
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    Review: Religious commitment and secular reason (review)
    Mind 111 (443): 639-643. 2002.
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    Have biologists wrapped up philosophy?
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (2). 2000.
    An examination of the currently fashionable thesis that scientists, and especially biologists in the wake of the Darwinian Revolution, can now solve the problems that traditional philosophers have only talked about. Past philosophers, for example during the Enlightenment, have themselves made use of contemporary, scientific techniques and theories. The present claim may only be another such move, to be welcomed by philosophers who would distinguish themselves from rhetoricians. Others may prefer…Read more
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    The evolution of language: Truth and lies
    Philosophy 75 (3): 401-421. 2000.
    There is both theoretical and experimental reason to suppose that no-one could ever have learned to speak without an environment of language-users. How then did the first language-users learn? Animal communication systems provide no help, since human languages aren't constituted as a natural system of signs, and are essentially recursive and syntactic. Such languages aren't demanded by evolution, since most creatures, even intelligent creatures, manage very well without them. I propose that repr…Read more
  • Nothing without mind
    In James H. Fetzer (ed.), Consciousness Evolving, John Benjamins. 2002.
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    Non-personal minds
    In Minds and Persons: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 53, Cambridge University Press. pp. 185-209. 2003.
    Persons are creatures with a range of personal capacities. Most known to us are also people, though nothing in observation or biological theory demands that all and only people are persons, nor even that persons, any more than people, constitute a natural kind. My aim is to consider what non-personal minds are like. Darwin's Earthworms are sensitive, passionate and, in their degree, intelligent. They may even construct maps, embedded in the world they perceive around them, so as to be able to co…Read more
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    The description and evaluation of animal emotion
    In Colin Blakemore & Susan A. Greenfield (eds.), Mindwaves, Blackwell. 1987.
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    Minds, memes, and multiples
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (1): 21-28. 1996.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Minds, Memes, and MultiplesStephen R. L. Clark (bio)AbstractMultiple Personality Disorder is sometimes interpreted as evidence for a radically pluralistic theory of the human mind, judged to be at odds with an older, monistic theory. Older philosophy, on the contrary, suggests that the mind is both plural (in its sub-systems or personalities) and unitary (in that there is only one light over all those lesser parts). Talk of gods and …Read more
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    Minds, memes, and rhetoric
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 36 (1-2): 3-16. 1993.
    Dennett's Consciousness Explained presents, but does not demonstrate, a fully naturalized account of consciousness that manages to leave out the very consciousness he purports to explain. If he were correct, realism and methodological individualism would collapse, as would the very enterprise of giving reasons. The metaphors he deploys actually testify to the power of metaphoric imagination that can no more be identified with the metaphors it creates than minds can be identified with memes. That…Read more
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    Slaves and Citizens
    Philosophy 60 (231): 27-. 1985.
    R. M. Hare has argued 1 that there are conceivable circumstances in which it would be right not to abolish the institution of slavery: in the imaginary land of Juba established slave-plantations are managed by a benevolent elite for the good of all, no ‘cruel or unusual ’ punishments are in use, and citizens of the neighbouring island of Camaica, ‘free ’but impoverished, regularly seek to become slaves. Hare adds that it is unlikely, given human nature, that ‘masters ’would treat ‘slaves ’humane…Read more
  • Implications of Socio-Cultural Contexts for the Ethics of Clinical Trials
    with Richard E. Ashcroft, D. Chadwick, Richard H. T. Edwards, and Lucy Frith
    Core Research. 1997.
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    Form and Transformation: a study in the philosophy of Plotinus
    Philosophical Books 36 (1): 40-42. 1995.
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    Plotinus (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (3): 382-384. 1994.
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    Patrides, Plotinus and the Cambridge Platonists
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5): 858-877. 2017.
    Discussion of the Cambridge Platonists, by Constantinos Patrides and others, is often vitiated by the mistaken contrasts drawn between those philosophers and late antique Platonists such as Plotinus. I draw attention especially to Patrides’s errors, and argue in particular that Plotinus and his immediate followers were as concerned about this world and our immediate duties to our neighbours as the Cambridge Platonists. Even the doctrine of deification is one shared by all Platonists, though it i…Read more
  •  36
    Plotinus on intellect – eyjólfur kjalar Emilsson
    Philosophical Quarterly 59 (235): 357-359. 2009.
    No Abstract
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    Animal Rights
    The Classical Review 37 (02): 224-. 1987.
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    Philosophical Futures
    Peter Lang. 2011.
    A collection of papers, revised for the volume, on likely and unlikely futures for humanity.
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    A Parliament of Souls: Limits and Renewals 2
    Oxford University Press UK. 1990.
    Limits and Renewals is a trilogy based on the Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1986-8. In this, the second volume, Professor Clark attempts to restate a traditional philosophy of mind, drawing upon philosophical and poetic resources that are often neglected in modern and post-modern thought, and emphasizing the moral and political implications of differing `philosophies of mind and value'. He presents a study of the soul as it has traditi…Read more
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    Civil peace and sacred order
    Oxford University Press. 1989.
    This book is an ambitious and challenging restatement of traditional political philosophy. The first of a three-volume series, Limits and Renewals, the book is concerned with the nature of political society, particularly with the errors and faulty arguments that have been used to support a "liberal modernist" view of the state and our political system. Clark argues that political modernism, which is determinedly secular and untraditional, has been a destructive influence on religion and our unde…Read more
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    Twenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-human animals. However, since then philosophers, scientists and welfarists have raised public awareness of the issue; and they have begun to lay the foundations for an enormous change in human practice. This book is a record of the development of 'animal rights' through the eyes of one highly-respected and well-known thinker. This book brings together for the first time Stephen…Read more